A boy soldier in the Cold War Royal Engineers (245)
Paul joined the Royal Engineers in 1977, aged 16 as an apprentice. We hear of his experience of joining the army at such a young age and being away from home for the first time. After initial trainin...
22 Jul 202257min
A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244)
In the early 1980s East Germany had just 5000 members of the Church of Latter-day Saints, many of which had been members since before World War 2. In 1982 East German leader Erich Honecker historical...
14 Jul 20221h 24min
US Navy Cold War airborne electronic reconnaissance (243)
KC flew the US Navy’s airborne Electronic Reconnaissance during the 1980s in the Lockheed EP-3 which is an electronic signals reconnaissance version of the P-3 Orion. He flew as a Navigator, Senior El...
8 Jul 20221h 17min
My life laid bare through secret police files (242)
What is it like to be under secret police surveillance? On 10 March 1983, 12-year-old Carmen Bugan returned from school to find Romanian secret police in her living room. Her father’s protest against ...
1 Jul 20221h 18min
Royal Military Police versus the Soviets (SOXMIS) in Cold War West Germany (241)
Keith Bailey Joined British Army at 16 in 1973. He was recruited into the Blues and Royals, (Household Cavalry) and served in West Germany as a gunner in Chieftain tanks. However, he was keen to serv...
24 Jun 20221h 22min
The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240)
Graham Bate was 30-year-old Civil Servant when he built his own nuclear bunker in the garden of his rural home 20 miles outside Hull in the UK. It was here that the Bate family expected to survive for...
17 Jun 202251min
Cold War number stations (239)
You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting random groups of numbers through the ether. These are number stat...
10 Jun 20221h 19min
Air warfare in the Cold War (238)
The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars throughout the wider world in which air power played a vita...
3 Jun 202254min
